About Yiannis Baboulias

Yiannis Baboulias is a Greek investigative journalist. His work on political, economic and social issues has appeared in the New Statesman, Vice UK, Guardian and others. Follow him on twitter @yiannisbab

As Greece’s protracted crisis disappears from the international headlines,
violence against women is both exacerbated by and mirrors the structural violence
of austerity. The resistance of Greek women takes place on several fronts.

Yiannis Baboulias went along to the Being a Man conference, hoping
to explore how men who don’t want to partake in the oppressive status-quo of
patriarchy, could proudly declare “not in our name", but he came away asking how
men may uproot it if they are unable to articulate it.

Yiannis Baboulias speaks about this week’s special project, “Real life dystopias”. Introducing the concept of the “dystopic condition”, he looks into how reality resembles
various stages/forms of cinematic dystopias, and further pinpoints ways in which we’re moving closer to them.

By now, a clear picture of what sort of behaviour the two previous bail-outs have supported ought to have emerged. Further aid, which will definitely be accompanied by further cuts and “reforms”, will only add to the burden imposed on Greek people.

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